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Early modern poetics in Melville and Poe : memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition / William E. Engel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Engel, William E., 1957- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Encantadas.
- Melville, Herman.
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Raven.
- Poe, Edgar Allan.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Literary style.
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Literary style.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Knowledge--Literature.
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Knowledge--Literature.
- Memory in literature.
- Chiasmus.
- Melancholy in literature.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- While other scholars have remarked on the influence of seventeenth-century literature on Melville and Poe, Engel is the first to explore how their close readings of early modern texts influenced their compositional practice. Rather than simply offering an account of what these authors read, Engel focuses principally on the overlapping rhetorical and iconic assumptions of the Art of Memory and its relation to chiasmus in order to illustrate the authors' profound debt to the past.
- Contents:
- Introduction: stylistic choices and intellectual armature
- Melville's melancholy landscapes. Salvator R.Tarnmoor's mnemonic itinerary; Allegories of decay and the decay of allegory; Mime and masquerade in the theatrum mundi
- Poe's mirrored memory palaces. The William Wilson effect; Magical architecture and chiastic echoes; Emblems of mournful and never-ending remembrance
- Conclusion : reclaiming irredeemable loss
- Appendix ("The raven").
- Notes:
- First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-57849-2
- 1-317-14686-7
- 1-317-14685-9
- 1-283-48001-8
- 9786613480019
- 1-4094-3587-3
- 9781315578491
- OCLC:
- 775498760
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